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| "week-at-a-glance"
May 22 - 26 |
| day |
Section
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Chapter 1: Understanding
Networks |
| Mon |
Section 1:
Network Terminology |
For the first section of your handbook use the Internet to find
a description of each of the "technical terms"
given to you at the face-to-face class. Each description should describe the term in
non-technical terms, what it means to you,
as well as links to related resources.
Click here for an example
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| Tues |
Section 2:
Network
Infrastructure |
This portion of your handbook will focus on your local networking resources. Meet with
your own network administrator or technical coordinator and find out
the specifics of your local network. This should include a
description of how much bandwidth you have in your
classroom / building as well as where
your servers are located. Knowing where
your resources are located and how you
access the network can help you
understand what "the network is down really means."
Having this information will let you know if the Internet is down, the servers
are down, or your building connection is
down.
Click here for an example
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| Wed |
Section 3:
Network Support
Optional Lecture:
Servers & Firewalls |
This portion of your handbook will focus on how to get networking support in your
building. When meeting
with your network administrator also find
our what type of support you can get for
networking in your classroom as well as
at home. Some districts provide support
during summer months or different levels
of access. You will also want to know how
often they backup and maintain their
hardware in case you lose some of your
information you can know exactly when the
last backup was made that would have your
info. Most organizations keep multiple copies of backups so if you realize on
Friday you lost a file on the previous
Monday, you could tell the network
administrator "Could you get this
file from Saturday's backup."
Click here for an example
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| Thurs |
Section 4:
Problem Solving |
This portion of your handbook will focus on solving network
problems. For the network
troubleshooting section we will analyze a
number of problems with getting computers
on-line. During this course keep a journal of all of the
problems you encounter. These entries should include a
detailed description of the problem and how you solved
the problem. Depending on your experience level you can have
either beginner or advanced responses. You can also write up past experiences that were interesting.
Click here for an example
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Guest Speaker:
Ryan Thomas |
Ryan Thomas is in
charge of the network at the college of
Education and will be giving us a tour of
the facilities. Although most of what he
shows us will be new to most of us. |
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"week-at-a-glance"
May 29 - June 2 |
| day |
Section
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Chapter 2: Development & Media |
| Mon |
Section 1:
Media Resources |
Using the clip art collection inside of Microsoft PowerPoint is not only limiting, but can also be
illegal depending on which images you choose to put on the Internet.
In this Section we will search for various resources on the Internet that you can use to help you develop your own network based resources. The goal in finding these sites will be
finding a collection of sites that will help you focus on content when you are developing your class materials instead of trying to create your own clipart, which is not always a useful feature.
Click here for an example
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| Tues |
Section 2: Development Resources Optional Lecture:
Search Engines
http://www.allsearchengines.com
http://www.infopeople.org/src/chart.html
http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
http://cadenza.org/search_engine_terms/
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This portion of your handbook will focus on finding development tools. There are a variety of resources on the Internet that you are free to use in your own projects. These range from on-line calculators, stock market simulations, as well as java-based weather stations that could give your students
real-time information from around the world. Because we are all busy, we are going to use this section to find resources on the Internet that we can link to , cut and paste or download to make our projects more interactive. Find the resources, describe them and discuss possible uses.
Click here for an example
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| Wed |
Section 3:
District Support
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This portion of your handbook discusses what your district will and will not support. Focus on how they will support you using different software packages to get your materials and projects on the
Internet.
Click here for an example
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| Thurs |
Section 4:
Problem Solving Optional Lecture:
Streaming Media
| This portion of your handbook will focus
on solving software problems. Not every district has the funds to provide adequate training and support for the different tools and software packages we wish to use. In this section, we will find on-line training and support services that we can use to help solve our own problems. These can take the form
of on-line user manuals, news groups, training materials
etc.
Click here for an example
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| Fri |
|
"week-at-a-glance"
June 5 - 9 |
| day |
Section
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Chapter 3: Best Practices & Evaluation |
| Mon |
Section 1:
Evaluating Websites |
This portion of your handbook will focus on how to evaluate a website.
Choose a criteria for evaluating websites from the
list below.
|
| Tues |
Section 2:
Find and Evaluate a Resource WebsiteRequired Guest Lecture 7-9 |
This portion of your handbook will focus on an evaluation of a resource website. Using
your chosen criteria, evaluate a resource website that would be useful to your district/grade
level. Focus on why the site is useful and credible.
|
| Wed |
Section 3:
Find and Evaluate
a Curriculum Website
Required Guest Lecture 7-9 (2nd presentation)
|
This portion of your handbook will focus on the evaluation of a curriculum website.
Pick a curriculum website that would be useful to your district/grade level.
Include how it would be useful to your particular
location. |
| Thurs |
Section 4:
Problem Solving |
Add your own evaluation rubric to your
handbook. |
| This week |
Guest Speaker:
Dr. Evangeline Pianfetti Evangeline works for the Office of Educational Technologies in the College of Education where she supports several network based projects for them. She has also collaborated on
ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers network contest, taking
Second place. She will discuss her vision of Best Practices in educational websites.
Guest Speaker:
Rick Langlois Rick Langlois has been a software developer and technology facilitator at the UIUC campus where he has helped instructors get their projects completed and on-line. He will share with us many of the problems and solutions to actually be able to finish the projects that we start. |
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"week-at-a-glance"
June 12 - 16 |
| day |
Section
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Chapter 4: General Issues |
| Mon |
Section 1:
District Policies |
This portion of your handbook will focus on your districts policies for network use. Every school district has policies ranging from how resources are to be used and distributed to how to deal with specific content on student sites. Create a section in your handbook that links to and discusses your specific policies and how it effects your classroom/district practice.
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| Tues |
Section 2: Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues Optional Lecture:
Setting up servers
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This portion of your handbook will focus on your rights to intellectual property and copyright. Create a section of your handbook that has a summary of how copyright, intellectual property and fair use apply to you and your district Some Resources:
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| Wed |
Section 3:
Funding Resources
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This portion of your handbook will focus on finding external funding. There are many sources of funding available if you have the time to apply for them. Find and discuss several sources of funding that you could apply for and what you would need to do to apply for the grant.
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| Thurs |
Section 4:
Problem Solving Optional Lecture:
Virus / hackers
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One of the issues you will need to solve is whether your students are capable of
participating in Internet projects. Discuss in this section of your handbook what specific needs you have to allow your students to
participate in these projects.
For example: if you have special needs students, what effect do computer based activities have on them?
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| Fri |
Guest Speaker:
Open Forum |
We will discuss any other issues that may have been overlooked during the semester. |
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